Francine Prose

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Blue Angel

Francine Prose

Swenson waits for his students to complete their private rituals, adjusting zippers and caps, arranging the pens and notebooks so painstaking chosen to express their tender young selves, the fidgety ballets that signal their weekly su...

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Published: Mar 2006

Bullyville

Francine Prose

My father was killed on 9/11. Everybody in town knows we lost him forever when the North Tower collapsed. What they don't know is that he was gone long before that day. What they don't know is that a scholarship to exclusive ...

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Published: Aug 2008

Mister Monkey: A Novel

Francine Prose

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway ...

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Published: Oct 2017

Goldengrove

Francine Prose

At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is l...

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Published: Sep 2009

Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles

Francine Prose

Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed-stre...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Vixen: A Novel

Francine Prose

Named one of the best books of 2021 byNPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times “No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to ...

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Published: Jun 2022

A Changed Man

Francine Prose

Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow, the head of a human rights foundation, is baffled by the entreaties of Vincent Nolan, a young neo-Nazi who inadvertently transforms the lives of other people in his attempts to change his own life.

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Published: Mar 2006

After

Francine Prose

School has become a prison.No one knows why.There's no way to stop it.

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Published: May 2004

Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The A...

Francine Prose

In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white- checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturi...

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Published: Oct 2010

Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth (Anc...

Francine Prose

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy  “A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”&mda...

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Published: Oct 2023

Household Saints: A Novel

Francine Prose

It happened by the grace of God that Joseph Santangelo won his wife in a card game.On a September night so hot that the good Catholics of New York wonder if their city has slipped into hell, the butcher Joseph Santangelo invites his f...

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Published: Apr 2003

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1...

Francine Prose

A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.Paris in the 1920s s...

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Published: May 2015

My New American Life

Francine Prose

"Francine Prose is a world-class satirist who's also a world-class storyteller."—Russell Banks   Francine Prose captures contemporary America at its most hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorous n...

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Published: May 2012

Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Mo...

Francine Prose

One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters as Jackson Pollock and Man Ray. In her time, there was no stronge...

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Published: Nov 2016

The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & ...

Francine Prose

All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros. In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between...

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Published: Oct 2003

The Peaceable Kingdom: Stories

Francine Prose

Stories of innocence lost, from a master observer of modern life The citizens of Prose's realm are perpetually experiencing surprises. Nothing is reliable in their world, where dream vacations, weddings, and parties go sideways; stran...

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Published: Nov 2013

Touch

Francine Prose

What really happened at the back of the bus? Did they, or didn't they? Did she, or didn't she? Something happened to fourteen-year-old Maisie Willard—something involving her three friends, all boys. But their stories don't match,...

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Published: Jun 2010
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